Anyone else feel like this feeling won't go away till we win a playoff game God willing Next Year

[tyke1doe]

Nope. I'm over it already.
I've lived through the winning years.
I'm matured and football doesn't run my emotions like it used to.
The draft can provide a worthy distraction.

 

[Boyzmamacita]

I blame Aaron Rodgers and Mason Crosby...

Absolutely, but it would be nice if our defenders weren't tackled and put in headlocks with no call. But yeah, props to the winners.

 

[Parche]

We need to make the playoffs obviously but no matter the success in the regular season it wont matter until the playoffs. Please know I'm not saying this as an arrogant Cowboy fan.

Well, I dont feel it that way. I like to beat NFC E rivals, I love to finish first of our division, and I like the first seed HFA. Those things are great accomplishments AND helps our team and our chances to succeed on PO time.

You can be sure it will be harder to succeed on PO playing away from WC weekend and on.

 

[davey999]

Nope. I'm over it already.
I've lived through the winning years.
I'm matured and football doesn't run my emotions like it used to.
The draft can provide a worthy distraction.

Feel the exact same way. Combo of maturity and apathy, I think.

 

[LandryFan]

Absolutely, but it would be nice if our defenders weren't tackled and put in headlocks with no call. But yeah, props to the winners.

Oh, I hear ya. Those two just had career best performances at the worst time for us. What are the odds?! Of course, there were a lot of other variables and I know we could have done some things better and the officials certainly could have done some things better, but Rodgers and Crosby did their thing about as well as anyone could ask of them. I tip my hat to them and say to my team: Get to work and come up with a different outcome in 2017!

 

[LandryFan]

Nope. I'm over it already.
I've lived through the winning years.
I'm matured and football doesn't run my emotions like it used to.
The draft can provide a worthy distraction.

Same here. My daughters were worried about me after the game (texted my wife asking "is Dad OK?"...)
I've learned to differentiate life from entertainment. It took a while, but I got there.

 

[Coy]

That's the thing, we had a great regular season, we had luck with injuries, we had the #1 seed and we still didn't win a playoff game.
So basically we need to win in the divisional games if we are going to have a better year next year. Easy to say, hard to do.
Although I think we have a bright future, this felt like a wasted opportunity, you never know how many of this we'll get.

 

[MileyDancer]

I bet we don't do better than 9-7 next season, and barely miss the playoffs.

 

[CATCH17]

I honestly don't know where this comes from.

Any football fan to expect a rookie QB to hang with a seasoned veteran is nuts. Dakota Prescott did just that and damn near won. Unheard of, IMO.

Proclaiming Dallas is a choke artist with TWO rookies and an orphan defense has a very weak argument, IMO. Haters or otherwise.

The day Dak and Zeke started a new era began. Zero to do with past rosters..

It comes from watching the games and changing expectations based on what you see on the field and not some hypothetical of what a rookie QB is supposed to play like.

Rookie QB never factored into our demise. Not for 1 second.


Expectations change. We had the 1 seed for a reason.

 

[Sepia]

The team will not have officially turned a corner until we 1) make the playoffs for consecutive years and 2) actually win some playoff games to prove we are an elite team.

Yes. I said yesterday they can turn a corner by at least becoming a perennial playoff team, so they can increase their shot at contending for titles.

 

[Doomsay]

After the past two playoff games, I just feel that we have to be so much better than our competition, like 2 TD's better, to overcome getting jobbed by the refs. I've never felt that way before, I used to think we that we would have tough reffing days like Minnesota, or get lucky like in the first Washington game, which kind of balanced out..... NY would always get away with more OL holding than most etc.

But Dez's catch reversal, the obvious fumble by Cobb and the no call with Clayroid below Romo's knees in '15 and the premeditated archeological relic call, Jason PI no call and obvious Irving take down from behind on the "miracle 3rd down PI" this year, convince me that someone is trying to engineer outcomes. The evidence is overwhelming, why won't it happen again next playoff game?

 

[CATCH17]

After the past two playoff games, I just feel that we have to be so much better than our competition, like 2 TD's better, to overcome getting jobbed by the refs. I've never felt that way before, I used to think we that we would have tough reffing days like Minnesota, or get lucky like in the first Washington game, which kind of balanced out..... NY would always get away with more OL holding than most etc.

But Dez's catch reversal, the obvious fumble by Cobb and the no call with Clayroid below Romo's knees in '15 and the premeditated archeological relic call, Jason PI no call and obvious Irving take down from behind on the "miracle 3rd down PI" this year, convince me that someone is trying to engineer outcomes. The evidence is overwhelming, why won't it happen again next playoff game?

It's not just the refs either.

It's like we have to out talent everyone by a mile as well.

The Packers had a great QB, playcaller, and that's all they needed to overcome being injured, low on rest, and outmanned by the opponent.

McCarthy and Rodgers had us down 21-3 before we knew what hit us.

 

[Maverick84]

I bet we don't do better than 9-7 next season, and barely miss the playoffs.

if that happens it won't just be the regular season that loses its luster for me, it may just be the whole damn sport.

 

[THEHEREAFTER]

Still too fresh... By the time off-season activities start ..it's a new year.

 

[lukin2006]

This loss will stick with me because you just don't get opportunities like this all the time...

You never know year from year.

We were only 2 wins away from an SB and for the team to come out so unprepared to fall behind by 18...

 

[MileyDancer]

if that happens it won't just be the regular season that loses its luster for me, it may just be the whole damn sport.

I just don't see us making the playoffs 2 years in a row. When was the last time that happened? As optimistic as I was about this season, in the back of my mind I thought it was all too good to be true.

 

[cowboyblue22]

its all about the money its only intertainment once you learn to deal with it that way the loses are easy to deal with the cowboys are only consistent about one thing they do and that is lose not lots of hope for next year or the next its just give me something to watch on tv

 

[BigD16]

To lose in the same fashion in two of the past three years to the same team has taken a lot out of me. Officials in almost all modern sports act like people go to watch them. Ive already cut down watching basketball by a huge margin. I'm already starting to feel like football is next. It's just not the same anymore (like basketball).

It's not that I'm quitting on my teams. I'll always love my teams but it just doesn't seem worth all the time, money and effort to try to watch every game when the officiating is horrible.

The only sport I'll never stop supporting is USA men's national soccer team. It's ironic because the USMNT is by far the worst team of all the teams I support, however the sport isn't as blatantly controlled by officials as football and basketball which keeps the game fun.

*sigh* I'm just so mentally ****ed right now.

 

[SacredStar]

Can't believe three of the league favorites are left in the SB. I want Atlanta to crush GB next week and either one of those slimy AFC teams. There would be minor comfort in that at least.

The only comfort I'll get is if GB loses. I grew up in Wisconsin and nothing would have given me more pleasure than to see Dallas win Sunday. Now, I hope somehow Atlanta finds a way to beat GB. Their fans are obnoxious, conceited, classless jerks who expect every fanbase to bow before them.

 

[Sasquatch]

Nope. I'm over it already.
I've lived through the winning years.
I'm matured and football doesn't run my emotions like it used to.
The draft can provide a worthy distraction.

The post of a man who has learned to cope with the past 20 years through emotional detachment (You can't hurt me anymore, Jerry!). j/k